Instructor: Richard Wohlfeiler
Office: Baskin Arts H-4
Office Hours: by appointment
SRA for The Cave: Peter Harris



Click here to get the syllabus in PDF format.

Adobe's video tutorials for CS3 programs--click here.
This tutorial on Adobe's website is for CS2, but should be similar to the way it works in CS3.

Tutorial for using Live Trace & Live Paint features in Illustrator--click here.
This tutorial on Adobe's website is for CS2, but should be similar to the way it works in CS3.

Some Resources for Book/Zine or Image/Text Projects
Here are PDF versions of a handout for laying out a 12 or 16 page book: 12-page book; 16-page book.

PDF version of a handout for creating and establishing imposition for a pamphlet/booklet using Acrobat Professional and CocoaBooklet

PDF of handout for printing inkjet transparencies for photo-litho plates.

PDF of handout for CMYK/waterless process photo-litho plates.

Links to instructions for some basic book structures:
Japanese stab binding
Pamphlet stitch
Accordion/Concertina book

Tramp and Vamp & Califia Books. Booksellers specializing in artist books. Their website features photos of many books and creative book structures. Look around; you might get some ideas.

Some tutorials for using InDesign. These are from the Adobe website. You might also look at the tutorials offered by InDesign when you start it up in the Porter Lab.

Several techniques for setting up documents, master pages, etc.
Kerning and visual effects of type spacing
Display options in InDesign (if your placed image looks bad on screen)
Setting up a page in InDesign
Exporting a file as PDF (which you can open in Photoshop for printing)

Tramp and Vamp & Califia Books. Booksellers specializing in artist books. Their website features photos of many books and creative book structures. Look around; you might get some ideas.

Click here to see a BBC News story analyzing a recent photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il which was intended to show that he is not seriously ill, as has been reported. A BBC graphic artist examined the photo closely and saw reason to suspect that the photographic "evidence" of Kim's good health has been constructed using Photoshop.




Artstor (www.artstor.org). An image resource available to the UCSC community. If you register from an on-campus computer you will be able to access it from remote locations (such as home) as well. Search for images & artists. Take a look at the selection of image/text/graphic design works I set up in "Image Groups" for Art 123.

Copyright, Intellectual Property, Public Domain issues:
The Center for the Study of the Public Domain--Arts Project at Duke University Law School offers interesting perspectives on current intellectual property issues. They have a presentation of legal issues in comic form. Click here to see it.

Creative Commons: 'Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."'

Lawrence Lessig, professor at Stanford University Law School who deals with intellectual property and culture. Some of his publications (Free Culture and Code: Version 2.0) can be downloaded for free.

Compendium of Public-Domain Image Links, from the blog Daily Kos.

There was an article in the San Jose Mercury News (March 6, 2006) on visual mashups, the satirical maniupulation of images and video achieved through digital technologies. One way to look at this is as an emerging form of popular art that uses the web as its medium and mechanism for dissemination and presentation. The article highlights ways in which mashup creators use digital imaging technology to re-present and comment critically on the visual landscape of popular culture. It also addresses the legal issues raised by this practice--issues of intellectual property and principles of "fair use" in particular. Click here to see a pdf of the article text.

The Cave: website on the Art Department's computer and digital printing lab.

Fonts and Typefaces: Here are some resources for fonts on the web, many for free.
Blambot (www.blambot.com) - the source for comics fonts that Noam referred to in his presentation. Some fonts are free, some for sale.
highfonts.com - recommended by Chris, the Porter Lab assistant. Many different styles of free and commercial fonts.
www.free-clipart.ws/fonts.html - another extensive source of free fonts.

Photoshop Instruction & Tips: Sites that feature ideas for using Photoshop, from basic to advanced. Maybe you'll find something you can use.
Russell Brown's site has a number of techniques from Photoshop 7 through CS 3, presented as Quicktime videos that can be goofy and entertaining as well as instructive. Scroll down to "Photoshop CS2 Tips".

Supplies & Materials:
Color Textiles, Inc.: Paper-backed fabric (cotton, silk) for inkjet printers.
Ink Aid: Inkjet-receptive pre-coat for papers & other materials. You can also order it from Daniel Smith (type "inkaid" in the search box). We usually have some available in the Printmaking Studio.

Art/Artist Sites: There is a lot of contemporary art that has not been codified by tradition in terms of books or museum/gallery shows but is visible on the web. Share your discoveries and interests with the class. Let me know and I will place links to sites here.

Maggie Taylor
Matt Siber
Simen Johan, also here.
Stephanie Syjuco -- Bay Area artist whose work, while conceptually driven, sometimes uses digital prints in constructing objects and installations.

The National Library of Scotland has a web resource focusing on their collection of broadsides and street literature, which was a way to disseminate news and accounts of events before the advent of newspapers. Broadsides contained textual narratives, poems, and images, usually woodcuts. Along with many visual examples, the website provides some historical information on the function and production of broadsides. In addition to viewing broadsides online, you can download them as pdf files. Click here to see the site. Look at the "search & browse" link to see a subject index of the broadsides available for viewing.